Reviews and Comments

Interesting and entertaining book about the actual art of being an Emperor of Rome. Had to stop reading it for a few months, but not out of boredom.

I never read this kind of book before. It is well documented and offers a fascinating view into the making of a postwar, globe-level politician. The connections to Russia (and others) have important consequences today, but as a political biography of Schroeder alone is the book a worthy read. I'm 1/3rd through.

This is an entertaining, easy to read and instructive book, relatively well crafted and with nice examples. The emphasis on modularity is a bit boring in the end. It has a surprising scientific aspect (to me), I didn't expect so many references.

Entertaining for the moment...

Well, the book is everything you can read somewhere else, and still very enjoyable. The ending is a bit surprising and I wish Mishima would have told us a little bit more about it. He's probably just being mischievous.

The themes of the island, the sea, purity qnd innocence, the work of the divers and fishermen are very nwell woven into this nice little novel.

The stories are great, ironic, and progressing towards their endings, which are famously good. This edition is great at providing the minimum amount of context needed to understand the context and the clues to the political and social setting in Ireland.

Much, probably too much, has been written about these stories, but they're great.

I made the error of starting with the forewords and introductions, which are very long and extremely tedious, and seem to have been mercifully cut short by the editor.

The short stories are very nicely crafted, short in all aspects, but have very vivid characters, often creating a sense of proximity with the reader. I most probably won't read them again, but I'm glad I read them.